Thx for the nice welcome!!!
@WhoGuru: Not bad for the beginning, maybe I can teach you some useful german expressions time by time!
To answer the questions:
There are some really good modders in germany, but nearly all have moved to Oblivion modding. Me personally doesn't like Oblivion that much, because of some reasons and so I'm only modding for Morrowind.
The problem why german mods don't gain that much popularity may result of the different language. We germans all speak english, at least a bit and so we are able to translate those mods from overseas that we like, or even play it in english. But I guess nobody would take care of translating german mods into english.
My personal interests in modding are landscaping and creating atmosphere, including custom made 3D models, textures and sound. I'm familiar with blender, meaning the basics, like modeling, texturing, adding collisions and rigging characters. At the moment I try to learn a bit more about nifskope.
What I'd really love to learn were animations. I'm trying for weeks to make my blender animations run ingame, but without a step-by-step guide I guess I'll have to do trial and error for some further weeks!
TheDaywalker